Apo -
The EU on Thursday settled a high-stakes anti-trust case against Gazprom, the Kremlin-backed energy giant, over claims it abused its dominant positon as a gas provider in eastern Europe member states.

Moscow -
Russia's Gazprom said Tuesday it was possible that it could retain some transit via Ukraine after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this was essential for a planned Russian-German pipeline to go ahead.

The news came out of the blue, and it's a shocker - ExxonMobil, who for 12 years held the Number 1 spot in the S&P Global Platts' annual corporate rankings for the energy sector's "Top 10 List, was toppled by Russia's Gazprom.

Yerevan -
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday appointed a Kremlin-friendly technocrat as the ex-Soviet nation's new prime minister, after the last premier quit following anger over a hostage crisis.

Kiev -
After several months of disagreement over prices, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to resume gas shipments. With $500 million received from the EU, Ukraine can purchase 2 billion cubic meters of gas for the winter.

Bratislava -
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday criticised as "anti-Ukrainian and anti-European" a deal between Russia's energy giant Gazprom and several Western firms to build a second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

Moscow -
Russia's Gazprom on Thursday started supplying gas directly to the rebel-controlled area in east Ukraine after pro-Moscow separatist leaders said Kiev had cut supplies, the company's chief said.

Moscow -
Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered Gazprom to cut supplies to and through the Ukraine by 60 percent. He accuses the Ukraine of siphoning off supplies for Europe and stealing Russian gas.

Amsterdam -
Greenpeace's protest vessel, the ice-breaker Arctic Sunrise, docked in Amsterdam, Holland, Saturday, almost a year after Russian authorities seized the ship and arrested its crew during Greenpeace protests against Arctic oil drilling.

Moscow -
Russian energy giant Gazprom on Friday warned Ukraine it could cut off gas exports if the new authorities in Kiev did not pay a bill for debt that now stands at $1.89 billion."Ukraine has de-facto stopped paying for gas...

Davos Platz -
Campaigners at the World Economic Forum Thursday handed clothing giant Gap and Russian oil major Gazprom their annual Public Eye shame awards for what they said were lax factory safety standards and Arctic drilling.

Munich -
German Greenpeace activists chained themselves to petrol pumps in Munich yesterday to protest against the Russian detention of 30 activists from the Arctic Sunrise ship. A separate group of activists also interrupted a football match in Basel on Tuesday.

Russian security services boarded the Dutch-flagged icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise, seizing the ship and arresting the crew. The ship belongs to Greenpeace International. Geenpeace says the ship was in international waters.

In the height of winter, Russia has ceased all gas shipments to Europe through the Ukrainian pipelines. Some countries have been forced to close schools and factories to try to preserve enough gas to heat homes and keep people from freezing to death.

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Greenpeace activists chain themselves to each other during a demonstration on Bosphorus bridge calling for the release of 30 people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling, during the Istanbul Marathon in Istanbul November 17, 2013. The 30 people detained by Russia consists of 28 activists who were arrested after coastguards boarded the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise following the protest at an oil platform owned by state-controlled Gazprom off Russia's northern coas

With permission by Reuters / Murad Sezer

Russia's Gazprom, with Headquarters in Moscow, toppled ExxonMobil out of the Number 1 spot in the Pratt's Global Rankings of the Top 10 Energy Companies.